My very first knit was this blanket. It's only garter stitch and simple construction. #Showmeyourknits #knitting #knitsky 🧶🩷

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

Friday tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Found yourself or found a lost sock, both work. Just something good.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Pretty excited because I finished the Killer Queen Cowl. I used cotton to be more appropriate for summer months. I've learned so many new stitches. #knitting #knitsky #WIPWednesday 🧶

This is what happens when a toddler takes over the white house

Data centres 🤮🔪

Monroe #Michigan Honestly, this is funnier than The Late Show ever was. #Colbert

There was so much beautiful yarn at the Great Lakes Fiber Show, and sheep, herder dogs, fuzzy rabbits, and many kind, friendly people who liked to talk about #knitting. No idea what I'll use these for, but I can't stop looking at my beautiful yarn. Thank you to all the friendly people there. 🙏🧶🩷

My WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits. Also my first time making bubbles. It's the Killer Queen Cowl. I thought I'd try making it in cotton for the summer months.

As the war with Iran pushes its munitions stocks to dangerously low levels, the Defense Department has not signed new contracts to replenish its supplies, according to two U.S. officials and two people familiar with the matter.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

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Farmers surprised he's losing them the farm again #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #dinosaurs #visualization

This is me in my, just finished, first experiment with self-striping yarn. #MeMadeMay #ShowMeYourKnits

The technological gap is widening rapidly. While the US government wastes billions funding endless wars for the Zionist regime, China is unveiling revolutionary EV batteries that charge to 100 percent in just ten minutes. The West is completely being left behind. #cdnpoli

Oh no! Is #ShowMeYourKnits broken? 🧶

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The MAGA GOP just voted to decimate Minnesota's vital tourism and recreation sector by opening up the pristine Boundary Waters to mining by a foreign billionaire. MAGA Minions: Please explain how destroying American wetlands to give away US resources to foreign billionaires is "America First."

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Finnish President Alexander Stubb took the ice for some drills with the PWHL Ottawa Chargers. Absolutely amazing. ❤️🇫🇮🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🇫🇮❤️ ❤️🇫🇮🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🇫🇮❤️

President Donald Trump thinks diet sodas are good for him, and that they prevent cancer, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told Donald Trump Jr. on his "Triggered" podcast.

Ohio gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is telling voters he’ll roll property taxes back to “levels where they were before the end of the Covid pandemic.” But Innovation Ohio contends it would be a disaster for schools, libraries, and public safety and health ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/14/v...

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

Barack Obama, 2004 DNC: "When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going... and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world."

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

Meryl Streep: The SAVE America Act will make it harder for women who have changed their names to vote She’s right. Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to vote no on the SAVE America Act.

Pam Bondi’s firing won’t have the effect Trump desires | Moira Donegan

Trump starts the week with market manipulation and threats of war crimes

Fun fact: The privatization of TSA is in Project 2025.

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Do people realize how many migrants work for ground crews and airports? Most of plane catering, cabin cleaning crews, airport shop employees that I came in contact while flying were held some sort of immigration status. Don't be surprised when they stop coming to work to hide from the Gestapo.

Here’s an updated list of signs for the March 28th “No Kings” protests! The best signs tell people what we stand for and do it simply. We want to show our numbers and our power, and look like the “good guys” to those who might not follow the news. reframingamerica.substack.com/p/big-list-o...

Y’all.

Particularly disturbing how he makes no distinction between the government, the people, or the land. Is he looking to murder 90 million people? If he can't have Iran's oil, no one can? Vile

Markwayne Mullin has defended fatal ICE shootings, pushed extreme anti-immigrant policies, denied the 2020 election, and shown reckless judgment unfit for leadership. Tell your Senators: Vote NO on confirming him as DHS Secretary!

Amazing photos

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

*RUMP ADMINISTRATION BETRAYAL, MURDEROUS SABOTAGE

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

I am making another Isabell Kraemer La Vie Est Belle cowl/shawl. I like this cowl design as opposed to a shawl. You slip it over your head and around your neck. It never slips loose or needs adjusting like a shawl often does. Plus, I just wanted something red in my wardrobe. #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

$1.5T defense budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $300M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ for Trump to golf $75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran? Priorities.

The US is rapidly burning through its stockpile of Patriot (PAC2/PAC-3) missiles by using the $4 million missiles to shoot down $20,000 Iranian drones or $50,000 Iranian missiles. Up to 11 Patriots have been fired at a single incoming target. Arms suppliers love this war.

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.